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Journalists are busy people with inboxes flooded with press releases. Eleven ideas to help your press release to stand out from the rest. Newspapers One thing I don’t enjoy doing is writing press releases. It is a dance that PRs and journalists have not let go. They’re a lazy form of communication. Take a breaking news story. Say, a policy announcement....

By DYLAN BYERS 06/19/2014 02:15 PM EDT NBC News sent out a press release on Thursday touting a “Meet the Press” ratings victory under the subject-heading: ““MEET THE PRESS” IS THE #1 SUNDAY PUBLIC AFFAIRS HOUR FOR JUNE 15, 2014.” In the release, NBC stated that “Meet” was “the most-watched Sunday morning public affairs hour in both total viewers and...

The procedure to rewrite a press release is very much the same as that of writing a news report. The only difference is that the press release provides the main information. However, there may be times when the reporter may need to obtain extra information. This is done by calling the official who issued the press release or going through...

After three years of litigation, two appeals to the Sixth Circuit, and with a February 4, 2020 trial date looming, electric automobile manufacturer Tesla and the State of Michigan, on January 22, 2020, settled their dispute over a state law that prohibits Tesla from engaging in direct sales of vehicles in Michigan or the servicing of those vehicles. Although the...